PT Journal
AU Hricsina, J
TI Evolution of the past anterior in the Portuguese language
SO Romanica Olomucensia
PY 2017
BP 149
EP 160
VL 29
IS 2
DI 10.5507/ro.2017.011
DE past anterior; Portuguese; corpora analysis; diachronic linguistics; functional linguistics
AB The aim of this article is to analyze the frequency and use of the past anterior ('preterito anterior') in the evolution of the Portuguese language. The author studies the occurrence of this tense in various types of sentences (syntactic aspect) and various temporal meanings that it expresses (semantic aspect). The analysis is performed via the diachronic linguistic corpus www.corpusdoportugues.org.
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